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As temperatures soared over 100 degrees in Texas this week, concerns over the safety of inmates and guards in Texas prisons — almost 75 percent of which do not have air conditioning in housing areas — have resurfaced, the Texas Tribune reports. During a devastating...

The Legal Technology Resource Center’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. This initiative launched in 2015 with a list of innovators and leaders in legal technology and with this year’s additions, that list now includes...

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has introduced legislation that would end money bail on the federal level and incentivize states to do the same.
The No Money Bail Act would prohibit the use of cash bail in federal criminal cases, provide grants to states that implement alternate...

Public records reviewed by the Minneapolis Star Tribune from 2015 and 2016 show dozens of rape cases in which police failed to investigate suspects even though they had been accused of, charged with or convicted of sexual assault in previous incidents — sometimes more than...

Politicians and advocates are scrutinizing police departments for the way they label and track suspected gang members. Critics say the methods lack oversight and unfairly expose minorities to the criminal justice system, the Wall Street Journal reports. Police departments in Los Angeles, New York and...

A year since the state passed massive criminal justice reforms, much of the focus has been on Louisiana newly shedding its notorious title as the nation’s top jailer.
But to safely cut spending on prisons while reducing recidivism, officials need to pump earmarked savings into new...